Combination-plow



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

JEFF. D. PACE, OF ARCADIA, LOUISIANA.

COMBINATION-PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,505, dated February12, 1884.

` Application filed September 14, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

. Beit known that I, JEFF. D. PACE, of Arcadia, in the parish ofBienville and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Combination-Flows, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to scooter-plows; and it consists in a novelconstruction of the same, whereby great simplicity, strength, andefficiency are obtained, and the plow is made readily convertible from ascooter into a moldboard or turning plow,'substantially as hereinafterdescribed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts inail the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the main body of the plow withattached point, upper or subsoil level-plate, and stock or standard, towhich said body, with its attachments, is secured by a heel-bolt. Fig.'l2 is a plan showing the point as applied to the main body, thesubsoil-plate, a brace bar or piece serving to support said plate, andthe heel-bolt in section; and Fig. 3, a rear end `view of the same,omitting the heel-bolt. Fig. 4 is a like view to Fig. 2, of similarparts, with the eX- ceptionof a mold-board or turning-plate for thes'ubsoilfplate; and Fig. 5 is a rear end view thereof. Fig. 6 is aninverted side edge view of the main body with attached brace bar orpiece.

A is the main plate or body of the plow, of

. any desired length and width, with its side edges parallel, orthereabout, and slightly hollowed on the forward portion of its face,with the under side of said portion convex, and terminating in a sharpcurved edge, b, arranged to project farther forward on the one side oredge than on the opposite side or edge.

B is a brace bar or piece secured by a rivet, c, on the face of the mainbody A, along the one and longer side of it, and at a suitable distancefrom the rear end of said body. This brace-piece, which may be ofrectangular form, serves to lioldfirm or steady in its place'on the faceof the body A either a subsoil-plate, C, or a moldfboard plate, D,according to the work the plow is required to perform, as hereinafterdescribed.

E is the plow-point, arranged to cover the forward portion of the mainbody A, and to extend in front beyond it, and with its forwardcutting-edge, d, made beveling or sloping backward from the longer sideof the main body to give a shear-cut. secured to the main body A byrivets or bolts e e, and is formedwith ahalf-dovetail or sloping backedge, f, from the shorter side of the main body A to a point in linewith the inner side edge of the brace-piece B, and with a back wing, g,for the remainder of its width, corresponding with the brace-piece,against which it may be made to bear.

Arranged to lit upon the recessed portion of the face of the main bodyor plate A, formed by the half-dovetail back edge, f, Iof the point E,its wing g, and the brace-piece B, is either the plate C, which is iiatupon its face and level with the point E and brace-piece CB, or themold-board plate D, which isof similar construction to the plate, C,with the addition of an upwardly and'backwardly curving extension orwing, It; Eitherof these plates Said plow-point is L is or may beusedthat is to say, the iiat or I level plate C when it is required tocompletely subsoil or work the plow wholly as a scooter, and themold-board plate D when the plow is required to operate as a turning onein its ac tion upon the soil, thus making the plow a combined orreversible scooter and turning one. Either of said plates is steadiedand supported by the, brace-piece B, and by its iit within thehalf-dovetail back edge, f, ofthe point, and all that is necessary tosecure it is the heel-bolt G, by which the main plate or body A, withits attachments, is fastened to the stock or standard' H of the plow.

I am aware that it is not new to use a median brace-plate, and tosupport one side of 'each wing against it; but my object is to soarstraight side of said shoe, arranged some distance below its upperedge, and receiving an angled plow-plate, substantially as shown anddescribed.'

\ y J EFF. lD. PAGE. Witnesses:

J. A. ENLoE, W. A. FULLER.

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